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Assistive Technology
High school
students with learning and emotional disabilities
benefit when they are trained to use the same
assistive technology to which they will have
access on the post-secondary level. Too often,
however, high school students either have no
awareness such technology exists, or no access
even if they are aware of it. Disability Services
Staff at the college level tell us many students
come to them either too embarrassed to ask for
assistive tech, or too frustrated by their lack of
familiarity with the technology to persist in
using it when it is offered to them. THIS MUST
CHANGE ! We must work to level the playing field
for those students cognitively able to meet the
challenges of college, but frustrated in their
efforts due to their disabilities. Software like
ViaVoice and Kurzweil, for example, should be
widely available in high
schools!
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